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Todd Johnson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Global Environment Facility Support for Sustainable Transport: Early Lessons from World Bank–Assisted Projects in Mexico City, Mexico; Santiago, Chile; and Lima, Peru
Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2003Co-Authors: Pierre Graftieaux, Walter Vergara, Todd JohnsonAbstract:Global Environment Facility (GEF) support for World Bank sustainable transport activities is described. An overview is presented of current GEF strategy for sustainable transport, which reflects a shift beyond individual technology interventions toward broader objectives, including modal shift, demand management, and land use planning. Ongoing GEF projects that exemplify this shift are reviewed by examining projects in Latin America and Asia whose aim is improving public transport, nonmotorized programs, and institutional capacity related to sustainable transport. The major lessons that can be drawn from these projects, most of which are still at an early stage, is that local authorities are often enthusiastic about getting involved in programs that simultaneously address key transportation concerns in their cities (such as access, safety, congestion, local air quality) and result in less overall energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. Much can be achieved as long as project communications and promotion are addressed and carefully targeted at decision makers and potential beneficiaries.
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Global Environment Facility SUPPORT FOR SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT: EARLY LESSONS FROM WORLD BANK-ASSISTED PROJECTS IN MEXICO CITY, MEXICO; SANTIAGO, CHILE; AND LIMA, PERU
Transportation Research Record, 2003Co-Authors: Pierre Graftieaux, Walter Vergara, Todd JohnsonAbstract:Global Environment Facility (GEF) support for World Bank sustainable transport activities is described. An overview is presented of current GEF strategy for sustainable transport, which reflects a shift beyond individual technology interventions toward broader objectives, including modal shift, demand management, and land use planning. Ongoing GEF projects that exemplify this shift are reviewed by examining projects in Latin America and Asia whose aim is improving public transport, nonmotorized programs, and institutional capacity related to sustainable transport. The major lessons that can be drawn from these projects, most of which are still at an early stage, is that local authorities are often enthusiastic about getting involved in programs that simultaneously address key transportation concerns in their cities (such as access, safety, congestion, local air quality) and result in less overall energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. Much can be achieved as long as project communications and promotion are addressed and carefully targeted at decision makers and potential beneficiaries.
Andrea K. Gerlak - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Strengthening river basin institutions: The Global Environment Facility and the Danube River Basin
Water Resources Research, 2004Co-Authors: Andrea K. GerlakAbstract:{[}1] Increased international attention to water resource management has resulted in the creation of new institutional arrangements and funding mechanisms as well as international initiatives designed to strengthen river basin institutions. The Global Environment Facility's (GEF) International Waters Program is at the heart of such novel collaborative regional approaches to the management of transboundary water resources. This paper assesses GEF-led efforts in the Danube River Basin, GEF's most mature and ambitious projects to date. It finds that GEF has been quite successful in building scientific knowledge and strengthening regional governance bodies. However, challenges of coordinating across expanding participants and demonstrating clear ecological improvements remain. GEF-led collaborative activities in the Danube River Basin reveal three critical lessons that can inform future river basin institution building and decision making, including the importance of appropriately creating and disseminating scientific data pertaining to the river system, the need for regional governance bodies for integrated river basin management, and the necessity to address coordination issues throughout project planning and implementation.
Pierre Graftieaux - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Global Environment Facility Support for Sustainable Transport: Early Lessons from World Bank–Assisted Projects in Mexico City, Mexico; Santiago, Chile; and Lima, Peru
Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2003Co-Authors: Pierre Graftieaux, Walter Vergara, Todd JohnsonAbstract:Global Environment Facility (GEF) support for World Bank sustainable transport activities is described. An overview is presented of current GEF strategy for sustainable transport, which reflects a shift beyond individual technology interventions toward broader objectives, including modal shift, demand management, and land use planning. Ongoing GEF projects that exemplify this shift are reviewed by examining projects in Latin America and Asia whose aim is improving public transport, nonmotorized programs, and institutional capacity related to sustainable transport. The major lessons that can be drawn from these projects, most of which are still at an early stage, is that local authorities are often enthusiastic about getting involved in programs that simultaneously address key transportation concerns in their cities (such as access, safety, congestion, local air quality) and result in less overall energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. Much can be achieved as long as project communications and promotion are addressed and carefully targeted at decision makers and potential beneficiaries.
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Global Environment Facility SUPPORT FOR SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT: EARLY LESSONS FROM WORLD BANK-ASSISTED PROJECTS IN MEXICO CITY, MEXICO; SANTIAGO, CHILE; AND LIMA, PERU
Transportation Research Record, 2003Co-Authors: Pierre Graftieaux, Walter Vergara, Todd JohnsonAbstract:Global Environment Facility (GEF) support for World Bank sustainable transport activities is described. An overview is presented of current GEF strategy for sustainable transport, which reflects a shift beyond individual technology interventions toward broader objectives, including modal shift, demand management, and land use planning. Ongoing GEF projects that exemplify this shift are reviewed by examining projects in Latin America and Asia whose aim is improving public transport, nonmotorized programs, and institutional capacity related to sustainable transport. The major lessons that can be drawn from these projects, most of which are still at an early stage, is that local authorities are often enthusiastic about getting involved in programs that simultaneously address key transportation concerns in their cities (such as access, safety, congestion, local air quality) and result in less overall energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. Much can be achieved as long as project communications and promotion are addressed and carefully targeted at decision makers and potential beneficiaries.
Joyeeta Gupta - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Global Environment Facility in its North‐South context
Environmental Politics, 1995Co-Authors: Joyeeta GuptaAbstract:This article analyses the controversy around the Global Environment Facility established by the World Bank, the United Nations Environment Programme and the United Nations Development Programme. The criticisms of representatives of non‐governmental organisations and diplomats from developing countries have been studied and appear to relate to three different levels: at the lowest level, they relate to the interpretation of the different issues in the GEF documents; at the next level, to the institutional context in which the GEF is based; and, at the highest level they concern the deeper problems of North‐South relations and power asymmetries. All three levels influence each other, and the basic reluctance of the developing countries to accept the role of the GEF as the operating entity for the financial mechanism to implement Agenda 21 and the different Environmental conventions stems from the middle and higher levels. This article analyses the criticisms and draws some inferences about how the power asy...
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the Global Environment Facility in its north south context
Environmental Politics, 1995Co-Authors: Joyeeta GuptaAbstract:This article analyses the controversy around the Global Environment Facility established by the World Bank, the United Nations Environment Programme and the United Nations Development Programme. The criticisms of representatives of non‐governmental organisations and diplomats from developing countries have been studied and appear to relate to three different levels: at the lowest level, they relate to the interpretation of the different issues in the GEF documents; at the next level, to the institutional context in which the GEF is based; and, at the highest level they concern the deeper problems of North‐South relations and power asymmetries. All three levels influence each other, and the basic reluctance of the developing countries to accept the role of the GEF as the operating entity for the financial mechanism to implement Agenda 21 and the different Environmental conventions stems from the middle and higher levels. This article analyses the criticisms and draws some inferences about how the power asy...
Un Environment Evaluation Office - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Terminal Evaluation of the UN Environment / Global Environment Facility Project “Expanding Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Certification at landscape level through incorporating additional ecosystem services”
2018Co-Authors: Un Environment Evaluation OfficeAbstract:This report is a terminal evaluation of a UN Environment – GEF project “Expanding Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification at landscape level through incorporating additional ecosystem services”. The project was implemented from October 2011 to February 2017 with UN Environment as Implementing Agency and Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) as Executing Agency, with US$ 2,880,000 financial support from Global Environment Facility (GEF) and US$ 5,009,042 co-financing. The project was implemented in the four pilot countries Chile, Indonesia, Nepal and Vietnam. The Objective of the Project was that FSC certification should incorporate expanded and enhanced Global and national Environmental standards, which applied to emerging markets for biodiversity conservation and ecosystems services as an initial step for upgrading successful models in order to improve ecosystem functions.
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Terminal Evaluation of UN Environment Project: Capacity Building for the Early Entry Into Force of the Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing
2017Co-Authors: Un Environment Evaluation OfficeAbstract:The project “Capacity Building for the early entry into force of the Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing” was a Global Environment Facility (GEF) medium-sized project (MSP) with a Global scope. The project’s purpose was to encourage 50 Global Environment Facility-eligible Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to ratify the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization. The project was implemented 2011-2014. This terminal evaluation has two primary purposes: 1) to provide evidence of results to meet accountability requirements, and 2) to promote learning, feedback, and knowledge sharing through results and lessons learned among the United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment), the GEF and their executing partners.
